Tricep exercises
The triceps are a big muscle in the back of your arm. You know the muscle on your arm as the biceps, but did you know that the triceps are much bigger than the biceps and actually people with big arms tend to have large triceps not biceps.
Here are what I believe are the best three exercises for triceps
Tricep kickbacks - This exercise is fantastic and is done by keeping your body parallel to a weight bench with your hand and knee resting on the bench. in this position with your free arm bring your elbow up to your side and then being your arm up straight. This exercise is the opposite of a bicep curl and at the top you will have a great peak contraction of your tricep.
Tricep pushdowns - You need a gym to do this exercise. All you do is pull the bar of the machine down to your sides and you will feel the contraction when your arms reach the bottom. When doing this exercise try to tighten at the bottom of the rep and you will get a great burn.
Close grip bench press - this is just like a regular bench press except you are keeping your hands less than shoulder height apart. As you let the weight down keep your elbows into your body and you will be able to feel the push up as being very difficult.
Out of all of these tricep exercises I believe that the tricep kickbacks are the best.
When doing tricep exercises try to make sure that you do not work triceps more than twice a week as the triceps are used a lot in doing chest and shoulder exercises as well and can be easily overtrained. Each set for triceps could be about 6-10 reps and actually my method of doing triceps is to just do two sets of each exercise and each of these3 sets is to failure.
